Category Archives: Alberta

One Horse Town rolls into Taber this week
TABER — Just over 3000 tickets sold out in less than an hour and it will be the largest ‘One Horse Town’ event Coors-Banquet has ever hosted. We already know the benefactor is the to...
Sep 08, 2018

UPDATE: Helicopter water drops continue to fight Boundary Creek fire in Waterton Lakes Park
WATERTON LAKES NP — Saturday, September 8, evening UPDATE: Aerial suppression of the Boundary Wildfire continued into Saturday (Sept 8) evening. Three Parks Canada helicopters and one U.S. heavy...
Sep 07, 2018

Prime minister promised new timeline on TMX pipeline in weeks: Alberta premier
CALGARY - Premier Rachel Notley says the federal government has promised a revised timeline within weeks to resume construction on the stalled Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project. Notley says sh...
Sep 06, 2018

Burt Reynolds, star of film, TV and tabloids, dead at 82
NEW YORK – Burt Reynolds, the handsome film and television star known for his acclaimed performances in “Deliverance” and “Boogie Nights” and for an active off-screen lif...
Sep 06, 2018

Coaldale fire hall expansion gets green-light from council
COALDALE - The Fire Hall Expansion and Renovation Project is going out to tender for construction, following unanimous approval from Coaldale Town Council on Tuesday, Sept. 4. In a media release from ...
Sep 05, 2018

Cardston man becomes motivational speaker after explosion nearly claims his life
LETHBRIDGE – On July 15, 2015, just five days after marrying the love of his life, 26-year-old Levi Stanford nearly died. Stanford loved pyrotechnics. He was considering working in the field of ...
Sep 05, 2018

Red Deer bans public consumption of recreational cannabis
RED DEER – The consumption of cannabis in public will be prohibited in the city of Red Deer. City council voted unanimously in favour of the ban on Tuesday, Sept. 4. Changes made to the Smoke-Fr...
Sep 05, 2018

Province, RCMP say rural crime strategy working
AIRDRIE - RCMP and the provincial government say crime statistics for the first six months of 2018 indicate their crime reduction strategy has been successful so far. According to numbers released at ...
Sep 04, 2018

Make robots pay taxes? Documents detail ideas to adapt to changing labour force
OTTAWA - The Liberals have been told to consider taxing robots that displace workers, letting people pay their tax bill in kind rather than with cash, and work to prevent income inequality before it h...
Sep 03, 2018

Work-life balance, precarious workers, a focus for revamp of federal labour code
OTTAWA - Restoring a work-life balance and better protections for part-time and temporary workers will be among the key focuses of a planned rewrite of Canada’s federal labour rules which are to...
Sep 03, 2018